“You know how to work it?” Timothy hurriedly stuffed his bag.
“Sure,” Liz shrugged. “Been a while, but not like it is rocket science.”
Timothy paused. An odd joke…but he didn’t have the time to explain anyway. “Just make sure to bring water,” he pressed.
Liz shooed her brother out. He’s been hovering ever since she’s been discharged. As if she’d never lived in a City. Never used a phone. So what if only Before?
A block later, she stood staring. Mystified.
“Water them before you dial,” a passerby offered. “Plants won’t connect your call otherwise. Rocket science, you know.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo prompt © Sandra Crook
Na'ama Yehuda 
A sweet conceit there. Loved it
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Glad you liked it, Neil! I was thinking to myself, sooner or later we’ll have to resort to using RENEWABLE energies rather than precious metals that are quite finite and often fractious in the getting. 🙂
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Sounds like my husband, “I know how to do it!” Me: “Ok, sure you do.”
ha ha
A fun read,
Tracey
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Glad you liked it! And … yes, sometimes we think we know more than we actually know, all to our detriment … 🙂 I’m actually pretty good in asking for directions, but this is usually AFTER I realized I don’t know what I thought I did know … LOL
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You said a lot in 100 words. Great story. Loved the ending. 🙂
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Glad you liked it! 🙂 I love these evocative photos. 🙂
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Me too.
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🙂
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loved the rocket science and the “Water them before you dial” = this was a fun take on this cool photo
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🙂 Thank you! It made me smile to think of it, so I’m glad the fun was communicated. 🙂
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🍃🙂🍃
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Amazing story. Anyone else remember the potato clocks?
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🙂 And potato batteries … 🙂
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Appreciated
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Thank you!
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Haha! Funny
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I like funny! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed my quirky sense of humor. 🙂
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Me too 🥰😍😂
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😀 here’s to some humor in what can otherwise be seen as a rather dreary world, when in fact, it is full of little amusing details. 🙂 Never grow up, is m motto.
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Yes, I find things to smile about in the ordinary.
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It is as it should be, IMO! Life’s too silly, absurd, funny, beautiful, delightful, heart-melting, sweet, hilarious, to not see all those tidbits! Even (or especially) in the midst of harder times.
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Yes, that’s how we should look at it.
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🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Watering plants to make a phone call? What a unique take on the prompt. I might be in trouble if I have to keep plants alive to sustain life. 😉 Well imagined story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I mean, we made electric circuits with potatoes at school … so … making a phone call with a plantransmission may not be THAT far off, eh? 😉 Anyway, that pigeon looked liked the site’s supervisor. 😉
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You got me thinking. I’m surrounded by plants in my pad, perhaps they could help to reduce my electricity bill!
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Right??? There’s biofuel, why not biolectric?
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water as source of renewable energy? that would be awesome! 🙂
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Hey, plants make oxygen, utilizing water and light … so, who knows, maybe they’ll make electricity and communication links for us, too! 🙂
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that’ll be the day. 🙂
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Indeed! Who knows, maybe sooner than we think.
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that’d be innovative
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Wouldn’t it? 🙂 Imagine how much we can save the forests if people realized that the forests are essential to … well … oxygen, of course, and protecting the atmosphere, and other ‘minor’ things, but can also be used to help us power our ‘electronics… 😀 One can dream!
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Ahhh… nothing like finding out you don’t know what you are sure you do! Nice and original, my NYNF!
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Thank you! I think I rather like the idea of plants helping us communicate. 🙂
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I think it is a fabulous idea. 😀
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a. I love having fabulous ideas. These are the best ideas to have, IMO …
b. plants make oxygen, right? And they make energy (a la food), right? So … why not make electricity? After all, I recall a potato electric circuit in elementary school … 😀
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Which you often do!
That they do!! And seriously! Potatoes can!
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Should we start a start up for potato starters? 😉
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Why not? 😉
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Welcome to PTST! Soon trading on the Stock (not the soup) Market. … 😀 LOL
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Hahaha!
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😀 me NYNF ….
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Lovable NYNF!
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❤ muah!
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mwah 💞
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I loved this piece. Super take.
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Glad you liked it, Dahlia! 🙂 It was a fun one!
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Fun take on the prompt. Good thing there was a kindly person there to help, water them before you dial! Very imaginative.
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Ha! Yes, always good to have a good Samaritan help save the day (or the dial, or the plants, or … all … ) 😉
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love how this flips casual confidence into surreal confusion like tech met magic and nobody told liz
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Glad you liked! 🙂
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